🏆 2025 BIBA® Cooking/Cookbook Winner! Islands in a Common Sea is about hope. It is also about Mother Nature and how we nurture her all over the world in the face of adversity. Discover the stories and recipes of 25 men and women across the globe whose lives are dedicated to farming and fishing, each…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Religion & Philosophy Winner! Have you ever watched and listened to any “science versus religion” debate and wondered if they were arguing from facts or emotions? It could be argued emotions, and this is where I make my case. Please note that I’m not trying to shoot down either side, but trying…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Christian Winner! Change your defaults, and your faith will follow. The Christian Church is captive to our own assumptions. The way we imagine faith and following is shaped at least as much by our culture as it is by the Scriptures, with the result that what seems obvious and natural to us…

🏆 2025 BIBA® LGBTQ2 Memoir Winner! This sneaky memoir celebrates the campiness and nostalgia of some of the more infamous (some might say underappreciated) sequels of the eighties and nineties, with brand-new interviews with cast and creative team members, while at the same time emphatically conveying the restorative power these films had on the author’s traumatic…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Tween Winner! Think middle school is tough? Try being dead. For middle schooler Liv Creep, being dead is totally ruining her life—constantly worrying about body parts falling off in class, the diet of (ew, you know), and keeping the million-year-old secret that the dead exist so humans don’t freak. But the worst…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Sociology/Anthropology Winner! Modern society has reached a critical juncture in its existence. Like past civilizations, ours has reached a point where its future is far from certain, with its decline or even collapse being distinct possibilities. The Incas, the Mayans, the Romans, the Rapanui, and many others had seemingly successful societies, yet…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: Classic Literature Winner! Fair is foul, and foul is fair . . . and nothing is quite what it seems. Meet Macbeth, a brave and power-hungry Scottish lord, who charts a murderous course to the throne after receiving an auspicious prophecy from a trio of witches. Meet Lady Macbeth, his ruthless…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Memoir Winner! Imagine completing a marathon every day for two and a half years. Solo. Self-supported. Through a global pandemic. Across four continents and 680 marathons, Marie Leautey faced scorching deserts, icy mountains, and the solitude of the open road. She braved blistering heat in Australia, navigated the Andes in South America,…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Supernatural Winner! He lost his body to the Devil. Now he has to fight like hell to get it back. Harley has always believed it’s his destiny to protect Stephanie from Satan—a girl he’s only ever seen in his dreams. Dismissed as delusional by his parents, drugged into silence by his shrink,…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Parenting Memoir (Down Syndrome) Winner! Like any first-time mother, Suzanne assumed having her first baby would come with all the usual pleasures and trials of motherhood, except one — an unexpected diagnosis of Down syndrome when her son, Owen, was seven days old. This discovery derailed every expectation she had of parenthood.…